dempsey_k wrote:YPG and Pesh have swept around on the western flank of Kobane, taken the south, and just seized the biggest key hill south of the city overlooking it, taking the only route of escape for ISIS. They've effectively encircled the fighters in the city and cut them off, but not completely. Battle is pretty much won. ISIS lost their best elite Chechen brigade and their own kurds directing the battle. Their reinforcements are morality police from Raqqa and conscripts with no training.

I think Bashar knows his time is up, wanting to "study" the Aleppo proposal. The rhetoric is pointing to taking out their air assets at the very least. It just seems morally fucked up doing it because of ISIS, and not because he is slaughtering his own people. I wonder if this new strategy is because the nuke talks are going a certain way.

Guys this is the thread where dempsey and shredder armchair general the Syria War. It's advanced stuff.

Any moment now Obama is going to be calling and Air Force 1 will be on its way to shuttle them to the situation room just like in that movie that time. Maybe if you guys read some tweets and post them to this thread you can go too.

Ernie wrote:Guys this is the thread where dempsey and shredder armchair general the Syria War. It's advanced stuff.

Any moment now Obama is going to be calling and Air Force 1 will be on its way to shuttle them to the situation room just like in that movie that time. Maybe if you guys read some tweets and post them to this thread you can go too.

Mr. Obama told reporters Sunday following the conclusion of the forum, “And one of those principles is that you don’t invade other countries for finance proxies and support them in ways that break up the country. At this point the sanctions that we have in place are biting plenty good."

dempsey_k wrote:lmfao, Egyptian court just exonerated Mubarak, rolling us back to square one of Jan 2011.

And apparently ISIS is attacking Kobane from the TURKISH side of the border. Multiple confirmations from Kurdish sources and reputable journos. No idea what to make of that yet. Seem likely it was a suicide car bombing meant to send the Kurds into a frenzy. A hail mary op while they're daily losing ground in the city.

Shit, nah, ISIS launched a full scale counteroffensive on kobane from within Turkish territory. This is disastrous.

It just seems too devious. On a lighter note, whats with the mustaches on the Kurds? I don't get it.

dempsey_k wrote:What made me think BS is that the claim originated on the IS offensive yesterday in Kobane. Nobody's getting in to Kobane but some pesh, certainly not her. I think it's 95% certain she's in Cizre/Hasakah. I think all the Westerners are.

Completely agree. I wonder what IS has in store for the American female. NY Times writers says Somali women are being trained to behead so it's girl on girl. I certainly hope not.

embracedbias wrote:Please explain how a significant number of the residents of the worlds richest country per capita would be compelled to think positively of ISIS without making reference to a common religious ideology.

I hate ISIS ideology but I choose them over Assad/Hussein/Mubarak any day.